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It is remarkable that the general state of things is:

1) creators whose work was stolen to train AI have no rights
2) users who create with AI have no rights in the output
3) the AI companies have full rights to everything they want, including user prompts

I dunno, sounds wrong and untenable.

New Request

The X-Files was a forerunner of the mystery box style of storytelling: a Ponzi scheme where the viewer is presented with a mystery, the answer to which is two more mysteries.

Ryan Coogler is the only person I trust to make a good X-Files without doing a narrative rug-pull.

so freaking cool!!!!

It's incredible that we uncover the oldest film about a robot and it's about a construct turning on its creator

The Butlerian Jihad remains undefeated as a moral philosophy

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

Revisions for Your Hopelessly Optimistic Dystopian YA Novel Dear Sir/Madam, While we are always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing, the editors regret to inform you that your manuscript, in its current fo...

"The protagonist grows up in a public orphanage, suggesting a centralized government with a sense of duty of care for its citizens and children. Have you considered cages?"

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

So, yeah. Give me a post-defund, post-abolish ICE Strange Days series written, directed, helmed by Black & Brown people who lived through that transition and know the world as it is— and who can demonstrate an unvarnished recognition that their hoped-for change ain't coming in the hands of the cops.

my nearly 8yo son INSISTED on going outside to see this last night, and apparently expected it to be a LOT more dramatic but was pleased to see that he had in fact witnessed it

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

I think people think we're exaggerating when we say the widespread use of the term "biological sex" as a term itself isn't organic. This data isn't anomalous, it comports with everything we've seen about the specific use of the term.

Shima is also
Desperate to feed her baby

gofund.me/12c715616

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

Please give. Ian is legit.

Also I am angrier with every passing second. One or two ultrawealthy persons could relieve all of this now

It’s beautiful that regular people are doing their best here but it’s also extremely fucked up

“Should any trans person be caught driving w/out a valid license, they could face a class B misdemeanor carrying up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.”

“The letter, obtained by Erin in the Morning, marks one of the most significant erosions of trans civil rights in the United States to date.”

"the day is less great now" is a riff i repeat depressingly often, while chuckling #mst3k #PrinceOfSpace

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

the democratic response to the SOTU should start with “is Donald Trump a pedophile?” and from there be entirely about the files

i was once too broke to move from one apartment in a building down the hall to another post-breakup. moving isn’t cheap or particularly fun &, by and large, trans people aren’t doing great economically. 401,000 trans people fleeing their governments should be considered a fucking national emergency.

ooooh! this sounds fascinating!

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

what the fuck. NO. NO. fuck this shit. NO. who do i write to/call/scream at about this.

It's funny that no one is racist anymore and yet so many people excel at artisanal racism.

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

Not a lot left to save Mahmouds life. 🍉❤️